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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SEA VOYAGES Matches Found: 205 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the place by night Last Line: For the cottage by the water. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America A HYMN TO CHRIST, AT THE AUTHOR'S LAST GOING INTO GERMANY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In what torn ship soever I embark Last Line: An everlasting night. Subject(s): Sea Voyages A LEGEND OF HELL GATE, 1675, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A saucy boat was the annetje block Last Line: When the hell gate tide is out. Subject(s): Death; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Sea Voyages; Tragedy; Dead, The A LIFE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my ancient sea-blood say Last Line: The dim marge of god's outer sea. Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean A PASSSGE TO ITALY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The channel glitters underneath the moon! Last Line: As steadfast -- as thou -- art. . . . Subject(s): Sea Voyages A SAILOR CHANTEY (ON BARK 'PESTALLOZI' OFF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA ISLANDS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hearty husky lads were we, / able to cope with storm and sea Last Line: And here we are to sea once more! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails A SEA SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dolphins under and sea-gulls over Last Line: Back to the heart of the long denied! Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Singing & Singers; Ocean A THOUGHT OF HOME AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis lone on the waters Last Line: And words of farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages; Parting A VOYAGER'S DREAM OF LAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow dash of waves! The ceaseless roar! Last Line: The sea-bird's wail shall vex my soul no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Women ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales ABRIDGED BESTIARY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the story goes, noah took animals of every variety Last Line: Recreated, according to the discarded pictures that the %monkey had saved for god Subject(s): Boats; God; Noah (bible); Religion; Sea Voyages ADVENTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I loved my garden; in its cloistered plot Last Line: Nor turn dismayed from unknown fate. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses; Sea Voyages; Destiny ALL ABOARD FOR BOMBAY, by LEROY F. JACKSON Poem Source Last Line: On a floating cedar log! Subject(s): Sea Voyages ALL'S WELL, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight bells! Eight bells! Their clear tone tells Last Line: "all's well! All's well!" Subject(s): Sea Voyages ALONE, by ELIZABETH FREAR Poem Text First Line: Over the trackless sea, from dawn to dawn Last Line: Fearlessly toward the sunset we shall sail away -- alone. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness ASBURY PARK, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Between the jetty and the haze Last Line: We breathe, we drown, we scuttle on Subject(s): Drowning; Gulf Stream; Sea Voyages; Seashore AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH Poem Text First Line: Across the land their long lines pass Last Line: A land to which all peoples turn. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT SEA, SEPTEMBER 1833, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft as I paced the deck Last Line: Has the star-bearing squadron left leghorn?' Subject(s): Sea Voyages BALLAD FOR CAPE HENRY DAY, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: From blackwall, hard by london town, on a bleak december Last Line: Adventurers, -- and comrades, across three hundred years! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages BOAT, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: Let me stay %this night far out Last Line: Not knowing %where it will land Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages BON VOYAGE, by VICTOR NOEL Poem Source First Line: What a strange season it is Last Line: Under this face of somber mood? Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages BON VOYAGE!, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue Last Line: And tempt the nautilus his cruise to dare! Subject(s): Sea Voyages BON VOYAGE!, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To eastern lands, far-famed in song and / story Last Line: And bring you home—the pilgrim journey through. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages CASTABELLA GOING TO SEA; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! Methinks I hear the seamen call Last Line: Whose eyes and voice the winds and seas obey. Subject(s): Sea Voyages CIRCE, DID YOU?, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Circe, like those siren sisters you warned of Last Line: Circe, blown away Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Ulysses COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GREAT WHITE FATHER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Engineers %found the great white father dying Last Line: Bloated with ears and testicles %and human hair Subject(s): Grandparents; Salmon; Sea Voyages COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE SALMON FESTIVAL, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: At celilo falls the columbia Last Line: Singing quietly to the salmon Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Rivers; Salmon; Sea Voyages CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages; Theology; Ocean CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Last Line: This dead street never stops Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages DARIEN, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waves swing hushed to the blue sky-line Last Line: The double world grows one—at darien! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DAWN, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn I went down among the machines Last Line: And as we swung toward santos our wake described a big arc glistening %on the unmoving sea Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Dawn; Sea Voyages DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It is winter Last Line: To abandon hope Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Clams; Cuba; Death; Marine Animals; Sea Voyages DEATH, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: And must I leave this world of music Last Line: O christ eb near, o christ, and pity me Subject(s): Boats; Death; Sea Voyages DEPORTED, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The transports move stealthily to sea Last Line: Oh, do not notice! Subject(s): Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DRAMA IN THE PORT, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Slosh of ocean Last Line: Beyond the harbor the seagulls rest Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Thunder; Waves DREAMER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are few probabilities through Last Line: That it jogs Subject(s): Dreams; Sea Voyages; Slavery; Faith; Christianity; Social Commentaries EDGE OF THE WORLD, by MARY FANNY YOUNGS Poem Source First Line: From the top of the bluff, where the wind blows free Last Line: Some day - some day - I must cross that rim! Subject(s): Sea Voyages EMBARQUEMENT, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: You must walk over the mud Last Line: Great swelling of water will carry you Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel FARTHER SHORES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Their ships sailed on-sailed on; was left Last Line: Whose ships sailed on and far away. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AT SEATTLE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Well, I'm takin' in seattle Last Line: Cause they feel their growin' pains! Subject(s): Clergy; Sea Voyages; Seattle, Washington; Spirituality; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what long tides Last Line: Ashes blown along the shore! Subject(s): Driftwood; Fire; Sea Voyages; Tides FOLLOW THE SEA, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it makes a man follow the sea? Last Line: "search me if I know!"" says billy magee." Subject(s): Sea Voyages FOUND AMONG LETTERS TO HIS MISTRESS, by ED WICKLIFFE Poem Source First Line: Let us set forth upon our journey now Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Letters; Sea Voyages; Travel GODSPEED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outbound, your bark awaits you. Were I one Last Line: The unreturning voyage, my friends to me. Subject(s): Sea Voyages HAIL VOYAGERS, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Voyagers, hail! Last Line: Ye left behind our pleasant shore. Subject(s): Sea Voyages HOMEWARD BOUND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a fiercer tempest Last Line: With our baby on her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages I HAVE WALKED MANY ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They relax below the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel I KNOW, by R. J. LANG Poem Text First Line: I know a little hill-locked shore Last Line: Of god's undreamed infinitude. Subject(s): Sea Voyages IBIZA 60, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Again we had ourselves locked up Last Line: Free us from these left-over %lies Subject(s): Boats; Sea; Sea Voyages; Water IN A STORM (ON THE BARK 'PESTALLOZI'), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this great ship's tilted deck Last Line: O god, where art thou? ... Here am I! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms IN ABEYANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No skilled hands Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness IN MID-OCEAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across this sea I sail, and do not know Last Line: The everlasting mystery to explore. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Sea Voyages; Dead, The IN THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS, by K. L. SILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Blue are the skies in the land of our fathers Last Line: Sailing the ocean of blue. Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Judaism; Ocean IN THE OASIS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a paradise of trees Last Line: Within my mind these memories are. Subject(s): Islands; Kindness; Oases; Sea Voyages INSOUCIANCE IN STORM (ON THE ORE-BOAT 'HOWE'), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in an ore-boat's hold Last Line: Mid rushing hills of storm! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms ISABEL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our columbus, wise and brave Last Line: All honor to queen isabel! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers KING CHARLES' VOYAGE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With comrades twelve upon the main Last Line: Till no more tempest stirred. Variant Title(s): Charlemagne's Voyage Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Sea Voyages KING HERMANDIAZ, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, standing by the shore, I saw the moon Last Line: "that said or seemed to say, ""hail, hermandiaz!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Sea Voyages; Avalon (legend); Arthur, King L'ENVOI TO E.W.G., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each in the self-same field we glean Last Line: And lighter-hearted than voltaire. Subject(s): Islands; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips LAY OF THE LAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out behind the house land and sea Last Line: As we lean homeward Subject(s): Home; Sea Voyages LEAVING FOREVER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says the waves in the ship's wake Subject(s): Sea Voyages LETTER TO NORA DECIE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear nora Last Line: Way round cape matapan & so to the piraeus as fast as we can Subject(s): Guests; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel LIFE ON THE LAKES: REQUIEM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: There's a far wet way to the journey's end Last Line: Where the headboards show—sleep well, my friend! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms LINES FOR H.F. BROWN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I remember, and still remember wailing Last Line: I in my lesiure made the present verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brown, Horatio Forbes (1854-1926); Sea Voyages LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE (1766-, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: At docks? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boats; Explorers; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Travel MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame! Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MARGUERITE DE ROBERVAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the long days and nights! The days that bring Last Line: With early flowers clustering here and there! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; France; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages MEASURE, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Motion on the seas Last Line: Signets to authencity and foremost authority Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping; Travel MEMORY, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My home is now a thousand miles away Last Line: Lord, in that strait, the judge! Remember me! Subject(s): Faith; Sea Voyages; Belief; Creed MIAMI: 2.CALLE OCHO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Because the ebb and flow Last Line: Riding the edge of the sea Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Love; Sea Voyages; Tourists; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIDNIGHT AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the deep stillness of the awful night Last Line: "may cry of ""all is well"" our midnight cheer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea Voyages MITSRAYIM, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: A country of the sultan of jinns where he secretly escaped Last Line: Mitsrayim. Forty days. He has grown his hair. He likes his loneliness Subject(s): Exiles; Sea Voyages; Travel MY GRIEF ON THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: His mouth to my mouth Subject(s): Grief;sea;sea Voyages; Sorrow;sadness;ocean NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips NEW ZEALAND ELEGY, by MARY KAY RUMMEL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring Last Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring Subject(s): Boats; New Zealand; Sea Voyages NEWES FROM VIRGINIA, by RICHARD RICH Poem Text First Line: It is no idle fabulous tale, nor is it fanyed newes Last Line: May heaven assist them in their worke, and thus our newes is done. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Virginia (state) NIGHT AT SEA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely purple of the noon's bestowing Last Line: Her voyage done -- to-morrow we shall land. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sea Voyages NIGHT SAILING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver web across the sky Last Line: How shall we miss the starry web? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails OAR, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Anyone finding a smashed oar Last Line: And renounced the possibilities of the oar Subject(s): Rowing; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping; Travel OCEAN ALGAE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: When adolescents %slough off %love Subject(s): Adolescence; Love; Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 1. THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIP, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She is on her way, a goodly ship Last Line: A land where is 'no more sea!' Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 12. THE HAVEN GAINED, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And we are parting, glorious sea! Last Line: Such friendships as I leave behind Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 2. MY SEA-HERMITAGE, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swinging in my cot at ease Last Line: Of the nearer friend above! Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 4. THE SUNKEN ROCK, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle ship was sailing Last Line: Thus, upon the self-same seas, %sang the oceanides! Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages OCEANIDES, 9. THE EDEN OF THE SEA, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dream! A dream! Our billowy home Last Line: Feels ever what at first he felt Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Sri Lanka ON A POEM CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little sheaf of words I speed Last Line: And lifted on celestial wings. Subject(s): Sea Voyages ON HIS MISTRESS CROSSING THE SEA, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, fair saint, may not the sea and wind Last Line: Whilst both contribute to your own undoing. Variant Title(s): To His Mistress Going To Sea Subject(s): Sea Voyages ON LEAVING CUBA, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: Pearl of the sea! Star of the tranquil west! Last Line: Now cleaves the waves, and flies in silence fast! Subject(s): Boats; Cuba; Farewell; Sea; Sea Voyages; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE (FROM NEW YORK), by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Now in the red and opalescent sun Last Line: Against the wind and sun that struggle, madly Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages; Travel ON TO THE EAST, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your loins let girt be Last Line: March to zion! Ye brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism OUTWARD BOUND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave behind me the elm-shadowed square Last Line: Ionian isles are thine, and all the fairy shores! Subject(s): Mysticism; Sea Voyages; Tanzania; Zanzibar OUTWARD BOUND, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon the unknown deep Last Line: Outward bound. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Sea Voyages PASSENGER SHANTY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ship weighed twenty thousand ton Last Line: No doubt. But it's dull beyond belief. %inky-pinky-parlez vous Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Sea Voyages PASSING TIME, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: If I had a boat Last Line: How I prefer a chosen end: me upon my pony on my boat Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel PAST AND PRESENT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I who have seen a tiny cloud Last Line: Scratched by a little pin or thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea Voyages PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 1. EVENING TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By ocean's pallid strand Last Line: Smiling, illumed by the moon. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Sea Voyages PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 11. PURIFICATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remain thou in thy ocean-depths Last Line: And my rescued spirit rejoices. Subject(s): Hearts; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 12. PEACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the heavens there stood the sun Last Line: "praised be jesus christ!" Subject(s): Holidays; Sea Voyages; Thanksgiving PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 3. THE NIGHT ON THE STRAND, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starless and cold is the night Last Line: "and a cough that proves quite eternal." Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Sea Voyages PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 10. SEA-SICKNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark-grey clouds of the afternoon Last Line: For thou art terra firma at least! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Sickness; Illness PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 11. IN HARBOUR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who arrives safe in harbour Last Line: Whirleth the whole of the drunken world. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages POEM AS CARAVANSARY ERECTED TO ACCOMMODATE A CARAVAN OF SOUVENIRS, by ELISABETH BORCHERS Poem Source First Line: Here disembarked to rest from torment and drudgery Last Line: Of a never ending journey and vanishing happiness Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel PROEM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Tells the cumbrous page historic how the missions rose / and fell Last Line: As loved tagus or as darro from granada's rugged steep. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; History; Missions & Missionaries; Sea Voyages; Historians QE2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING. THIRD DAY., by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Panel of gray silk. Liquefied ashes. Dingy percale tugged over Last Line: Well, I'd get off if I knew where to go Subject(s): Sea Voyages RAVEN BOAT, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: The rapids are very scary Last Line: When they awaited the schooner Subject(s): Alaska; Boats; Native Americans; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages RECOMPENSE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Where the green fir-tips meet the sapphire sky Last Line: For you can sing. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are tales to be told of the land and the sea Last Line: The soul's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Sea Voyages; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian, Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards SCHOONER FLIGHT, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In idle august, while the sea soft Last Line: Shabine sang to you from the depths of the sea Subject(s): Sea Voyages; West Indies SEA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: What you imagine is my voice, that rustling and complaint Last Line: And sit down and write Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel SEA DREAMS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water SEA IN MY WORDS, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: The sea is alwayst in my words Last Line: Into a triumphant arch Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Sea Voyages; Storms SEA MARVELS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning more mysterious seems the sea Last Line: In the inglorious grapple after gold! Subject(s): Explorers; Sea; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean SEA VOYAGE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Re-plyed, extorted, oft transposed, and fleeting, Last Line: We sum in port her banquet of degrees Subject(s): Sea Voyages SEAFARERS, by GEORG HEYM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the brows of countries, worthy of crowns Last Line: Like a sweet-voiced dream sounding the depths of the soul Subject(s): Sea Voyages SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter %swallow %each calling Last Line: But speak of more cheerful imaginings Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing And Writers SEVEN AFTERNOONS: SARGASSO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Time of the floating eye Last Line: Somewhere to go Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages SHACKLETON, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two faces of the same coin: poet and explorer. This Last Line: Destined to go down, a bride of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Explorers; Funerals - At Sea; Sea Voyages; Shackleton, Sir Ernest (1874-1922); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Burials At Sea SKATE, by NANCY VIEIRA COUTO Poem Source First Line: What she has gotten herself into is a boat Last Line: As if nothing had happened Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Storms; Women SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is chafing at our long delay Last Line: To reach a land unknown. Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I took my three little trusty boats Last Line: The niña, and santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Columbus was a brave man Last Line: Or sail-boats three! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONGS IN ABSENCE: 3, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come home, come home! And where is home for me Last Line: Indeed our home? Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages SONGS IN ABSENCE: 3 [LATER VERSION], by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come home, come home! And where an home hath he Last Line: Is there indeed, or is there not a shore %that is our home? Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages SONGS IN ABSENCE: 5, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, come back, behold with straining mast Last Line: The strong ship follows its appointed way. Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Last Line: Far, far behind, is all that they can say. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping SONGS IN ABSENCE: 8, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty ocean rolls and raves Last Line: Could dream I travelled o'er to you. Subject(s): Absence; Sea Voyages; Separation; Isolation SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 20, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind and stars, I am with you now Last Line: Than the very dark grows dear. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Farewell SONGS OF TRAVEL: 44, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me a song of a lad that is gone Last Line: All that was me is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Lad That Is Gone;over The Sea To Skye Subject(s): Sea Voyages SONNET ON SEEING A VESSEL WEIGH ANCHOR FOR A LONG VOYAGE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide! Last Line: Go, gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Sea Voyages SONNET: 11. OUTWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide Last Line: Go gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Subject(s): Blessings; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Sonnet (as Literary Form) STANZAS. WRITTEN BETWEEN DOVER AND CALAIS, IN JULY, 1792, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bounding billow, cease thy motion Last Line: Now we part -- to meet no more! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sea Voyages STATE OF THE UNION: 2. PROGRESS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sandboats on the lagoon Last Line: Since they set out at dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel STORIES, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: January thaw in the berkshires, 4 a.M., and what I want Last Line: As if this cleaving, this consciousness, this barn, %had somewhere to go Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sea Voyages; Travel STORM IN MID-ATLANTIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many have sung of the terrors of storm Last Line: Storm, the matchless artist, lord of colour and line. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms STORY OF THE FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WHO WENT ROUND THE WORLD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, a long while ago, there were four little people whose Last Line: Their father's house as a diaphanous doorscraper Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages STRAIGHT ON TO PORT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Straight through the sea-foam and the awful sea Last Line: There to forget what storms have bruised her wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sea Voyages SUN, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: This is my most famous charade Last Line: Like a ruined beast with a lens Subject(s): Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel SUNSET-MOOD, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Outward-bound for singapore Last Line: Steaming to cathay! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping TEMPEST NIGHT, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wind in the void, where the white stars shake Last Line: And the night hangs heavily years and years? Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Ocean TERRA INCOGNITA, by BARBARA SZERLIP Poem Source First Line: We've walked since morning, the landscape, as before, perfect sem Last Line: Any he's seen before, swears there's not a constellation he can recognize Subject(s): Camping; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel THE EXCURSION, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How delightful, at sunset, to loosen the boat! Last Line: By the time we reach the shore, it seems as though the fifth month were autumn. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Boats; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages THE FIRST VOYAGE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: The ocean is his home! Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE HAPPY VOYAGE, by ETHEL GATES COATES Poem Text First Line: As those who stand upon an unknown shore Last Line: Our love and faith have glorified the years. Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE INDIA WHARF, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the velvet stillness Last Line: Of ivory and scarlet. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York Harbor; Sea Voyages THE LISBON PACKET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huzza! Hodgson, we are going Last Line: Ev'n on board the lisbon packet? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Lines To Mr. Hodgson;lines To Mr. Hodgson, Written On Board The Lisbon Packet Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE MOON IS UP, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is up: the stars are bright Last Line: Beyond the spanish main. Subject(s): Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: In the secluded, sleepy town Last Line: Are his companions now. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE PALTRY NUDE STARTS ON A SPRING VOYAGE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But not on a shell, she starts, Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE PASSING OF CADIEUX, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That man is brave who at the nod of fate Last Line: "thine arms that hold me when I wake to light!" Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages THE SCHOONER FLIGHT, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In idle august, while the sea soft Subject(s): Sea Voyages; West Indies; Caribbean Islands THE SEA GYPSY [OR GIPSY], by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fevered with the sunset Last Line: In the wonder of the sea. Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE SEA-VOYAGE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a day and night my bark stood ready laden Last Line: Trusting ever. Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE SEA-VOYAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leaning stood against the mast Last Line: With overweight of sorrow! Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE SEAFARER, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I for my own self song's truth reckon Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE SHAPES WERE OF MOTION, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The shapes were of motion in their dreaming Last Line: Are the shapes forever of motion in this dreaming? Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE SHINING SHIP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I see the ships sail in, the sun upon their spars Last Line: Oh, she's the ship for me! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 12, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So bearing far along that pleasant shore Last Line: Or what new quest might to their lord be shown. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But destiny swoop'd darkling on their course Last Line: Thus only might they for such sin atone. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): France; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 77, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Still masterful, the unruly helm he seized Last Line: Then leaping, landward his pale burden bore. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Sea Voyages THE STAR OF DISCONTENT, by X Poem Text First Line: O thou, sweet friend, would I might soothe thy / fear! Last Line: One ray of hope—the star of disconent. Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Optimism; Judaism THE STORM, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The sun sank in a sheer abyss of cloud Last Line: Upon the fallen tree, shout as they play. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Lightning Rods THE STORMY SEA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the twilight bat was flitting Last Line: "home returned to love and thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages THE TIMES ATLAS; FOR MY MENTOR, LONG DEAD, RICHARD HALLIBURTON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today was the coldest day in the history Last Line: That might leave so many dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Halliburton, Richard (1900-1939); Maps; Sea Voyages; Weather THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore. Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGERS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No longer spread the sail! Last Line: Can bring us to the isle? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE WATCH BELOW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: His childhood's longings are come true Last Line: Let the wet sea boy lie! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake Last Line: As the waters fill the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND SMART, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the ruler of the ocean wild and wide! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Death THE WRECK OF THE WHALER 'OSCAR', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 1st of april, and in the year of eighteen thirteen Last Line: Unsure. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The TO A GENTLEMAN ON HIS VOYAGE TO GREAT-BRITAIN, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While others chant the gay elysian scenes Last Line: And own thy work, great ruler of the skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages TO C. DICKENS, ESQ. ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pshaw, away with leaf and berry Last Line: As the best among his works. Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Farewell; Sea Voyages; Parting TO G. W. C.; AUGUST 1, 1846, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day so long remembered comes again Last Line: Whose splendor freshens this memorial day. Subject(s): Sea Voyages TO JOSIAH ROYCE, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Seaward he set his course, nor hugg'd the / shore Last Line: And find the pole-star of your loyalty! Subject(s): Explorers; Royce, Josiah (1855-1916); Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO MRS. HAYLEY, ON HER VOYAGE TO AMERICA. 1784, by WILLIAM HAYLEY Poem Text First Line: Thou vexed atlantic, who hast lately seen Last Line: Kind as her heart, and as her purpose fair! Subject(s): Sea Voyages TO MY NOBLE AND JUDICIOUS FRIEND SIR HENRY BLOUNT UPON HIS VOYAGE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I must ever own myself to be Last Line: Whether more your admirer or your friend. Subject(s): Blount, Sir Henry (1602-1682); Sea Voyages TO NED, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ned, for our pantheistic ports Last Line: Marvelling mild if mortal twice, %here and hereafter, touch a paradise Subject(s): Sea Voyages TO THE BOSTON FRIGATE, ON LEAVING HALIFAX FOR ENGLAND, 1804, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With triumph this morning o boston! I hail Last Line: To the boat -- I am with thee -- columbia, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping TO THE SHIP OF STATE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, o bark, the waves that wish to Last Line: And shun the treacherous waters of the shining cyclades. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TO W.A. AND H.H. ON THEIR DEPARTURE TO EUROPE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, and may your journey be Last Line: And bring you safely o'er the deep. Subject(s): Sea Voyages TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Truth is a native Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) TOWARD THE LOWLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Window grilles and seed roses Last Line: Before the moon comes Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel TRAVELLING THOUGHTS; ON BOARD THE STEAMER LA FRANCE, JANURAY 26, 1866, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A still grey haze around us Last Line: And dwell, like her, with god. Subject(s): Sea Voyages TREE, by JOSE JOAQUIN OLMEDO Poem Source First Line: In the calm, wide-spreading shadow Last Line: Underneath the desert's tree Subject(s): America - Exploration; Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel; Trees TRIAD, by EDWIN C. GRABER Poem Text First Line: We are like ships Last Line: Bend over us. Subject(s): Happiness; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Joy; Delight TUBINGEN, by ELISABETH BORCHERS Poem Source First Line: Once I stood down there Last Line: As if the darkness were illuminated Subject(s): North, The; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping TWO VOYAGES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two ships which meet upon the ocean waste Last Line: To one dark harbour and invisible goal. Subject(s): Sea Voyages UNKNOWN HARBOR, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Housebound in a house not our own Last Line: For the festival by way of an unknown harbor Subject(s): Boats; Camping; Harbors; Sea Voyages UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness VALE; FOR PAULINE JOHNSON, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone voyager! Thy ship of dreams Last Line: The end of distance brings you rest! Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips VARIOUS RESPONSES ON AN OCEAN VOYAGE: 1, by HUANG TSUN-HSIEN Poem Source First Line: In the years and months of my middle age Last Line: In only one year I have received %twice the 'dawn of flowers' Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Middle Age; Sea Voyages VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 2. OFF ALGIERS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh give me neither love nor tears Last Line: Like sudden sunlight on the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Algiers; Sea Voyages VOYAGE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages Last Line: That was our marvelous punishment Subject(s): Sea Voyages VOYAGE OF SELF-DISCOVERY, by MICHAEL BENEDIKT Poem Source First Line: It's the voyage of self-discovery: it started out with enormous sails, a Last Line: Houseboat Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel VOYAGE OUT, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weekly dietary scale Last Line: And no more ireland than went with her Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Sea Voyages VOYAGERS, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: While we're still on the journey, I want you to know Last Line: With memory, here or afar, so we'll know it. Subject(s): Fate; Sea Voyages; Destiny WAKING UP, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm naked %I've already taken my bath Last Line: I don't have a minute to lose %I write Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Morning; Nudity; Sea Voyages WALT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going up for the assault that morning Last Line: Hugger-mugger anyhow %inside my shirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Old Age; Sea Voyages; World War I WHEN AS A LAD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, as a lad, at break of day Last Line: For any save the soul's swift feet! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boys; Childhood Memories; Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers WICK, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: We keep watch at dock edge, dusk Last Line: That flickers, and is gone Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks WILD WEATHER OUTSIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild weather outside where the brave ships go Last Line: Where the sweet wife smiles in the cottage door. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Storms WINTER IN SITGES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man building a boat on the beach Last Line: Built to make shapes in the waves Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Spain; Travel YOUTH, by LOUISE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: O, let me sail the seven seas Last Line: If you've not gone romancing, too! Subject(s): Explorers; Love; Romance; Sea Voyages; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers |
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